Tie.



UNiTED STATES PATENT Oruro LOUIS KENTANA, or BROOKLYN, NRW YORK,AssIGNoR or ONE-HALF To FRANK HAssARD, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 19,1913.

Application filed February 28, 1913. Serial No. 751,313.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS KENTANA, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Ties, of which the following isa. specification.

The general object of the invention is to reinforce by an interlockingeect, the corner bricks forming the wall of a building, a shaft or thelike. And to this end the invention resides in a tie adapted to beinterposed between adjacent courses of blocks forming a wall andeffectively connect certain of the blocks in the said adjacent courses,and shaped so as to it in the angle formed by adjacent sides of thewall.

Other objects will appear and be better understood from that embodimentof my invention of which the following is a speciication, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in whichFigure l is a plan sho-wing my device connecting two blocks forming acorner of a wall. Fig. 2 is a perspective showing the arrangement ofconnecting several adjacent courses. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective ofthe tie.

The tie a is formed of a single piece of sheet metal o-f such size aswill admit of its being cut, stamped or punched and then bent orfashioned into the shape shown.

The tie comprises a cross piece 5, an outer angular-shaped wing 6 and aninner angular-shaped wing 7. The sides 8 8 of the wing 7 are hereinshown as arranged at right angles to each other, but it will, of course,be understood that this is simply illustrative and that the angularrelation of the sides 8 8 will follow the angular relation of theadjacent sides of the wall with which my device is to be used. The sides9 9 of the wing 6 are arranged at an angle to correspond to the angularrelation of the Y walls 8 8, but the wing 6 differs from the wing 7 inpoint of size, in the embodiment shown. This matter of difference in thesize of the wings may be departed from and both wings made of the samelength or the wing 7 longer than the wing 6.

As shown in Fig. 3, the cross piece 5 is arranged considerably below theupper edges of t-he wings 6 and 7 and as shown in Fig. l this crosspiece is of such length as to admit of the sides 9 9 of the wing 6bearing on the outer face of the wall o and the corresponding portionsof the wing 7 bearing on the inner face of the wall. The positioning ofthe cross piece considerably below the upper edges of the wings providesfor an angular-shaped pocket in the space above the cross piece andbetween the upper portions of the wings. This pocket is herein indicatedby lOand it will be obvious that when, for instance, the device isplaced on one corner of the wall and over the first course, the pocketl0 will be disposed above the plane of t-he first course but positionedto receive the corner blocks at one corner in the succeeding course.Here too, it will be observed that upon positioning the corner blocks ofthe succeeding or second course in the pocket, the tie will bear on bothcourses and on the opposite faces of each course and by virtue of thecross piece 5, both courses will have been effectively locked againstlateral displacement. The peculiar contour of the wings 7 7 admits ofthe said wing functioning as the angle iron bearings which are nowalmost universally used in the corners of dumb-waiter shafts. Thus, thedevice, when used in connection with a dumb-waiter shaft, will performthe twofold function of a tie and a bearing plate.

Vhat is claimed as new is:

A tie comprising a metallic sheet having at its ends parallel flangeswhich terminate short of the'side edges of the sheet, said iiangeshaving at their ends wings, the wings on one iiange being parallel withthe corresponding wings on the other flange, one set of wings havingfree end portions disposed away from the body of the sheet and the otherset of wings resting at portions of their edges upon the body of thesheet and having end portions which project beyond the edges of thesheet. j

In testimony whereof T affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. LOUIS ,KENTANi/r. 1Witnesses GEO. A. BYRNE, JOHN A. DONEGLE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.

